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Syslog messages forwarded to a syslog server have to be encrypted by TLS protocol

in our data centers syslog messages have to be encrypted. we got an open risk because COS System send syslog messages unencrypted to the syslog server.
4 months ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

IBM Storwize/SVC QOS function to prioritize workload

The Storwize / Spectrum Virtualize QOS function (I/O Governing) can limit the I/O's on a LUN. We need a functionality as I/O Priority Manager for different tenants (e.g Pepsi and Coca Cola) on one system.This priority Manager must be integrated in...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Add export logs to IBM (call home) via REST API Endpoint.

With this customer could automated the Datacollection and the export to IBM Ecurep.
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Add possibility to change SQL agent communication IPs

The SPP SQL Agent needs to communicate with the ISP GUI to get the credentials for mounting the SMB log volume from the vSnap.Unfortunately it's not possible to change the IP or network which is used for this communication. This is a big issue in ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

LSS Display capability in Internal Resources page per Storage Array

It would be nice to have the ability to report on LSS on a DS8K. It would be nice if we could report on LSS and the Device Type, getting the counts per model type with an LSS device quantity Total - perhaps with a Capacity Total by model and summary.
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 5 Future consideration

Copy Data Managment - support for Oracle ASM cluster

Informations from customer about infrastructure and use case. "Oracle ASM HA, Grid Infrastructure ver. 19.7, BS database - cluster - 2 servers, Oracle Linux 7.9, kernel 4.14.35-2047.502.4.el7uek.x86_64, - ASM disk group, 21 volumes of 2 TiB, total...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to use RSA for MFA on TS7700s / TSSC

Add the ability to use RSA for MFA on TS7700s / TSSC On the DS8K line we can use RSA for MFA we'd just like to have this ability for IBM tape so we can use the same method for both IBM storage solutions. As of now I believe the only way for MFA on...
7 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

Change the unit of retention for snapshot from days to hours

I have a client that needs to do more frequent snapshots and retian them for hours instead of days.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

double library libTsmViSdk.so / unnecessary space usage

We noticed that the libTsmViSdk.so library is included into the TIVsm-API64 and TIVSM-BA package: bash-4.4$ find /opt/tivoli/ -name libTsmViSdk.so /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin64/libTsmViSdk.so /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/libTsmViSdk.so bash-4....
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Enabling and Disabling the Hash Algorithm at FLASH ARRAY.

Currently IBM added SHA256 & SHA3-256 to the list of hashing algorithms for iSCSI host connectivity. But IBM prohibit MD5 and SHA1 for iSCSI host attach although we implement higher algorithms that meet their requirements. As a customer (Fidel...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

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